Arizona Lou: Website Information

Website Information

This website is simple and low maintenance. After all we’re out kiteboarding or getting ready for our next excursion or stand up comedy appearance.

We have aimed for:

no advertising or sales - just trying to make people laugh, show how much fun kiteboarding is and how good retired life can be if you do a little planning.
a simple main page that offers a lot of information in an easy-to-navigate form.
self-reformatting web pages that adapt to small screens, large screens and yes, even cell phones. That’s why you see things jumping around as you resize your screen.
printer-friendly versions of some pages so you will get easily usable printed copy by printing directly from your browser without having to worry about selecting portions to copy and/or print.

This website is hand coded in HTML by us, so don’t look for all the fancy stuff. In case you’re interested, we tried to make it close to HTML 4.0/XHTML 1.0 compliant. Yes, it uses separate CSS and SSI files for styling for the header and menus.

As of February, 2018 the website includes over 230 pages. The main pages occupy only about 300k (exclusive of images), which is an average of about 11k per page. All that means that you are looking at a very efficient website which loads quickly and is a friend to every web browsing device we have been able to get our hands on for testing.

We would like you to link to our website. In exchange we’ll link to yours if you wish.

In the fall of 2008 we took a class from PVCC (Paradise Valley Community College) in Web Design. We strained our brain in the process, but were able to keep up with the young kids taking the class. This website, in its basic form, was our final project. Oh, yes, we got an "A"!

The first idea of our website as uploaded to the

PVCC: Paradise Valley Community College

server way back on Oct 28, 2008

Preliminary block diagram of what became our website

Tests with my 2022 Christmas letter for jpg images of people showed that 1120x1449 at 90% resolution was the best compromise for quality and file size.

We tell people that arizonaloukiteboarder.com is a top-ranked website, so decided to put our money where our mouth was. Here is the result:

Our Website Search Results, July 25th, 2011

Google Hits	Rank	Search Term Used
21.6 million	Top	Arizona Lou
16.2 million	Top	AZ Lou
6.75 million	Top	Arizona Kitesurfer
3.99 million	Top	Arizona Lew
3.49 million	Top	AZ Lew
3.23 million	Top	Arizona Kiteboarder
2.06 million	Top	retire kiteboarding
1.2 million	Top	kiteboarder van
692 thousand	Top	retired kiteboarder
6.8 thousand	Top	Dave Ramsey kiteboarder
2.4 million	Second	kitesurfer van
1.655 million	Second	Helen Keller kiteboarder
1.2 million	Second	van kiteboarder

Excellent website design information can be found at https://www.w3schools.com/ and https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/